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Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting /

In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Colección:Studies in war, society, and the military.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam
  • The people's war
  • Rice-roots reporting
  • "The world's first helicopter war"
  • The rise and fall of frontier forts
  • Two ill-fated presidents
  • "The United States will lose Southeast Asia"
  • Americanizing the war
  • Her story as history too
  • "Destroy the town to save it"
  • From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason"
  • Two "darling spies" and I
  • Appendix 1 : author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications
  • Appendix 2 : author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield).